Install Windows XP on Gumstix?

GamegenIe · Post by **GamegenIe** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:48 pm

I was wondering would it be possible to install the WXP OS on Gumstix.I know it is Linux based, but would it be possible to overwrite it?

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:48 pm

Windows XP is for x86 processors, it will not run natively on the XScale (ARM) processor in the Gumstix.

Any particular reason you wanted to do so? There may be alternatives that could run WinXP and meet you needs.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:15 am

PS even if the processor could support or emulate the needs for it I think those things run purely on RAM, which is all Linux needs, Windows of anyform I think requires at least some little piece of Hard Drive space to function, this is why Windows has failure bundled in the Software (hey I'm a Win user so I can say this) The Hard Drives eventually corrupt data and since RAM is wiped after each use, then it is easy to keep Linux happily with less errors over time

~Krepticor

GamegenIe · Post by **GamegenIe** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:26 pm

I want to build my own PMD or Pocket PC. Dudes.

dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:30 pm

come over and check out the link in my sig that is exactly what we are trying to do at portagame any help we can get is good and the more jpeople we get working on it the better

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:37 pm

GamegenIe wrote:I want to build my own PMD or Pocket PC. Dudes.

Theres some information in this thread and it has a link to another thread in the first post.

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:42 am

How the hell do you get video out of one of those Gumstix?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:55 am

scherzo wrote:How the hell do you get video out of one of those Gumstix?

They sell about 50 module add-ons and I believe 2-4 of them offer video out. The Gumstix is a nice little embedded computer, with surprisingly good flexibility. I'm not sure if it has enough processing power (even running TinyXP/XP-lite) that it could run XP without a lot of lagging. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, try it please see if I'm wrong. Again I just am not sure if XP can run on that kind of a system with such low system specs.